About MD

It starts the instant you get pregnant. Your body needs blood to feed the baby in your belly, and so you get less blood where your body deems you need it least. Very quickly, you lose your mind. Even after the baby is born, mental acuity is never fully recovered.

You don’t get it back, not quite the same way. Ever.

Not only do you have to think (and everything else) for these little creatures that you’ve introduced to the world, you still have to think for yourself, and all this with the diminished brain capacity.

Okay, those kids make your heart grow bigger. But I’m telling you, the brain is shrinking.

Maternal Dementia: Commentary by a modern (or post-modern) woman about the paradox of motherhood (loving my children but not loving every minute of being a mom), living and working abroad (an American living in Paris and Barcelona), the wild wisdom of my children (but not too many word-for-word anecdotes, I promise), writing, reading, a little traveling (when I can), lousing about, wishing I was vagabonding and anything else that comes to (what's left of) my mind.